LINGUIS 155AC Lecture 21: Codeswitching
12 Jan 2017
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Immigrant families use: passive and functional bilingualism, not balanced. In schools, subtractive bilingualism (except in few where its additive bilingualism) A person can only have one language in their head at a time (monolingualism) People can"t learn to speak either language well. Semilingualism - partial knowledge of two or more languages. Semilingualism - negative since expectation of failure and underachievement. Bilingualism not always because of underdeveloped language. Economic, social, and political conditions as well. Person may be competent in one language in some context, but not in others. Tests used to measure proficiency are insensitive to unquantifiable aspects of language and range of competence. Deficiency may be due to unfair comparisons with monolinguals. May differ in way they develop and use language. Early history (to 1880) of bilingualism and bilingual education. No uniform language policy for public education immigrant groups local majority - their language used in schools. However, 1880 marked period of extreme xenophobia.
